Yugo Saso

During World War II, four Allied POWs endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle.

Nanami is an apathetic, part-time junior high school teacher, whose only solace comes from connecting with others on "Planet".

The film outlines Japanese students movements in the 60s, then shows the formation of the Japanese United Red Army, a communist armed resistance group.